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Sea princess
100x70 cm, 2008.This painting is made for the poetry festival at World Art Delft. It is inspired on a poem of Jan Wolkers (1925-2007 NL) who at the same time was inspired by The birth of Venus by Boticelli.
The young Sea Princess, is looking at the sea, with its wind playing with her hair. Based on Kiki Doeve.
The sea foams
The sea foams
Like a cloak
Of glistening hair.
A lovely shape,
Unembraceable,
A pearl leaving its shell,
A fantasy
Rising bare-footed
From the enamel sea
Like rippling snow.
We chew every scrap
Of the sunlight
Until the west wind
Wipes out the vision
In a flood of pale roses.
Jan Wolkers
Chiem van Houweningen and Phil Weinstein
Don Quixote triptych
I knew right away what was I going to paint when I received the invitation for the exhibition: a triptych with three different broadness. The most narrow would be for Rossinant, Don Quixote’s horse. The widest would be for Sancho Panza, his faithful follower. The third canvas would be Don Quixote himself. I still needed the three models. Sancho was very easy: a little wide, easy going but wild, that person would be a friend of us: Chiem. I found Rossinant at a small hacienda in Mexico: the slow Gavilan.
The most difficult was Don Quixote, there was nobody I could think of who would fit the model I had in mind. I find my Don Quixote at a hotel in Puerto Vallarta where he was taking the sun . There he was and I didn’t dare to ask him. Until he was about to go I said: -Señor, señor!- he didn’t turn. – Do you speak English?- ‘I hope so I was born in New York and lived there until some years ago’ was his answer. After I asked him he would pose for me, he said why not, I am am always asked to be photographed! That was the way the third part of my thyptich was born: Phil as my perfect Don Quixote.
The Hague, September 2005
The most difficult was Don Quixote, there was nobody I could think of who would fit the model I had in mind. I find my Don Quixote at a hotel in Puerto Vallarta where he was taking the sun . There he was and I didn’t dare to ask him. Until he was about to go I said: -Señor, señor!- he didn’t turn. – Do you speak English?- ‘I hope so I was born in New York and lived there until some years ago’ was his answer. After I asked him he would pose for me, he said why not, I am am always asked to be photographed! That was the way the third part of my thyptich was born: Phil as my perfect Don Quixote.
The Hague, September 2005
Harry Lockefeer
It is nearly a year that he passed away. I never met him and being asked to make a painting of him was not easy. Also it had to be in black and white, as he always worked at the newspapers, this part of the commission was something that I really liked it because I had been asking my self if I could do it and then how would it look. Well I couldn't paint only in black and white but this was as near as possible. The painting is nearly ready.
Laurent
I wanted to paint Laurent years ago. It was the last painting of 2007. Here some photos of the work at process.
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